Being an Abram, or a Lot?

Just as Abram and Lot had to decide where they would live and bring up their families, so it goes with all the families who will have to decide where they will raise their children. In the years ahead, it will become more and more of a contrast between the states of the United States where homosexual “marriage” is legal or not. Those states in which it is illegal and not accepted provide a more family friendly environment that honors God through recognition of Biblical marriage. The states where homosexuals can now “marry” have become places in which marriage has lost its meaning in relation to the Bible.

God will not bless decisions to dwell where there is an allowance for homosexual “marriage” any more than He did the decision of Lot to dwell in Sodom. When Lot saw the land of Sodom, he saw a land that is described in Genesis as “well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar” (Genesis 13:10). The description of the land Lot saw could be used to describe California and many other areas of our beautiful country. Lot looked only at what he thought would provide him and his family with material abundance and did not consider how living in that land would affect his family spiritually. Abram walked by faith, while Lot walked by sight. Lot’s choice revealed his heart was already astray and then he willfully allowed his family to be led astray in a land that refused to honor God. Now that California is full of many who are celebrating men having sexual relations with men, and women having sexual relations with women, maybe they should change the state’s name to Sodofornia.

In the years ahead, I believe that there will be an exodus of God-honoring families who do not want to raise their families in the lands of Sodom of our day. The states that choose to honor God’s definition of a family will benefit, while those lands of Sodom will become more wicked as places where one’s family will be more easily led astray into behavior that dishonors God. Through his faith in God, Abram had enough sense to stay away from the land of Sodom and he was blessed. The leaders of the families of today have some decisions to make and, hopefully, there will be increasing numbers of people who decide that they will walk by faith and not by sight.